Feature request: export and/or view a list of markers added to a recording

Not sure if this is the right place, but I have a feature request for Camtasia Studio. As I go through recordings, I add a lot of markers, with descriptions of noteworthy things, e.g. "Task 1 begins", or "User recognises something", etc. Once I've gone through the whole recording, I want to be able to see or export a list of all these markers (their times and descriptions) to a textfile or a spreadsheet.

Is this a feature that is under consideration? (I have posted a question on the forum about this and a TechSmith Support Specialist replied to say that I should put in a feature request here.)

Produce the project to flash using the classic controller with TOC embedded in html.

Open the resulting config.xml in a text editor [Notepad, etc].

Scroll to the bottom of the document; all the markers will be listed; easy to edit here.

I've done this for years.

You could also produce using the Overlay controller with TOC, but the config.xml is not formatted correctly. However, if you open that xml with Microsoft's free XMLNotepad, then save and close, then if you open in Notepad, the file will be formatted, and the markers easy to work with at bottom of document.

This seems pretty basic, TechSmith...
I see Markers as a strong differentiator for you guys...something as simple as being able to export them, AND to see them listed all in one place, as very key.
Another usability enhancement would be to allow listing them all together, then editing them. I find that I create markers while watching the video, often in a hurry, and I often misspell them,
Wow - what if I could review them and edit them all together, without having to jump to each one in my hour-long video!
And (be still my heart), what if there were a spellcheck I could apply!!

Thanks guys - your product is great, but pls get some of these basics in for us.

Let's bump this one up. My primary Camtasia use right now is for editing and producing training videos. I repurpose most of the video by utilizing specific segments, so I add a good number of markers at the clip level. I have to manually track all the markers and timestamps separately in a text file. Being able to display and export a list of markers would save me so much time.

I just wanted to let you know people here at TechSmith see and monitor the Get Satisfaction posts including new feature requests or feature requests that might be older but still have some activity on the page.

We receive many, many feature requests via this forum, twitter, email, other social outlets, blog posts, and more. And, while we read and/or explore those, we never promise any request will make it into any future release.

We have a lot of criteria that goes into implementing new features so not every requested feature makes it into one of our programs - this particular request being one of those. That is not to say it could never be implemented in the future.

We know you get a lot of requests, we know all of them don't make it, we know you have your criteria... none of this was news to anyone. We wanted an update on this request. Is there a work around? Is this is part of the published files we can extract with another kind of program? Why does your team not see this as important as other feature? Maybe the reason you don't see activity is that when someone looks it up they see it already has been reported. Do you need a whole bunch of "yeah, me too" responses on old requests to make them happen?

Camtasia Studio is fantastic as the first level post-recording editor. Having the ability to export markers, perhaps as an optional SAMI file instead of closed captions? Having to munge the XML file when we aren't certain the format will change is not a good use of time.

In one customer environment Qumu is the video management platform. Enterprise Camtasia Studio liceneses could be sold if there were a supported utility to import markers and have the Qumu API create slides, which would mimic a major aspect of the Camtasia Smart Player behavior. It all would start with a way to export the markers in a supported way.

Adding Import/export to Markers would really help in productivity. Editing markers in the timeline is painfully slow.

Could Techsmith adapt the Closed caption module to create a similar module that works with Markers? Exporting and importing SAMI or SRT files seems like a perfect workflow.

There are already so many open source subtitling editors out there. Even using a simple text editor with SRT files would be easing than clicking on markers in the timeline; also, markers get bumped over a frame half the time when I click on them.

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I produce the same presentation in different languages and it would be a lot easier if I could just save/load an editing list to the project just renaming the media name used in the last project to one with the language stated on it i.e slide_034_en.png, slide_034_fr.png, slide_034_pt_br.png. Just a simple editable text file...

Techsmith apparently thinks of Camtasia as an application for a single user.

There is no collaborative, corporate, or creative project that is done by a single person. Not having a cue list ("markers") means that content creators can't help editors, editors can't effectively trim or enhance a production, and production personnel cannot polish the output.

I know that corporate users have tried Camtasia. No cue list = removal from their short list.

As I follow along your tutorial, I count something like -- 2 to 4 processes (e.g., producing an output from the project to create the toc - which can take many, many minutes; change file extension, open in notepad, convert frames > time)-- plus 10 or so mouse moves/key clicks along the way

Most of my personnel would not even be able to find config.xml or [ ].tscproj and possibly not even Notepad. "Text editor" is not in their lexicon.

This is because corporate workers are not computer jockeys. (I just watched one accidentally close a Word file and then be unable to find it again to re-open it... until it was pointed out to him that there is a "Recent" option in Word > File > Open. In fact, he'd never really clicked on the File menu before -- always opened things by double-clicking on a link or Explorer list.)

Meanwhile, more to the point:A 1- or 2-click solution resulting in a Word-readable doc is the request.

That capability would result in a quickly-created, quickly-disseminated file that all of our relevant staff could open, read, and go right to work with.

I know this is frustrating for you but Techsmith is not going to fix this overnight. Although more of their customers are moving to CMS or LMS for playback instead of using the Camtasia smart player. Those player generally support text file import for cue lists and captions , so I would think Techsmith would eventually offer a cue list export.

Here's another option:

Use captions in Camtasia to duplicate the Markers (a manual process) and then export the SRT file. You can either change the extension from .srt to .txt or to .doc. If you change it to .doc you will want to open it and change it to windows encoding when the popup comes up then save it. When they send the file back change it back to .srt. The only problem you may encounter is if they change the formatting, but that would be true of any text list.

you do not have to produce the "project" to get the TOC; if you add markers to a project, they are written into the .tscproj file as they are entered

regardless, your request has merit, but it has been in user's "nice-to-have" list for many years now, but still as no-show

the SRT suggestion is a good one, but reported times, I believe, are in miliseconds

however, form user Charles Welford has made a utility [CamLoc] that will pull captions [and callout text] from a .tscproj; it works great, and may help you. its out put can be output to clipboard and pasted in any app; it gives a nice, simple list

I've spent hours confirming grabbing Markers from the config.xml. Then hours more reading this forum.Ugh!

Come on already! TechSmith, I love you...BUT...This is so painfully absurdly easy to do!! Export markers and a usable time stamp. CSV. Done.

BTW...Getting Markers from the .tscproj file is unusable, as per Techsmith Support, at least, not if you want useful timestamps."the number by time is
measured by frames. Since we edit at 30fps, my 48 would be at 1 second and 18
frames. However, some markers start from the beginning of the timeline where as
other markers will have the time starting from the beginning of the
media. There's no way to know which one it is so I'm afraid there is not
a good way to get the data you needs looking in the .tscproj file."

I have modified my program CAMLOC.EXE version 5.92 to now display the Markers in a table. You can then export them to the Windows Clipboard or export them as a .CSV file. Link is at https://www.screencast.com/t/5E82fSyDONote: because I am an individual, not a recognized company, some antivirus software may flag this as being from an unknown entity. The file has no virus or malware in it.